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The official homepage of the X370 Gaming Pro Carbon can be found HERE.

2.2 – Unboxing

The box:

The bundle: the motherboard, a CDROM with drivers, a user’s guide, an SLI bridge, two SATA cables, one RGB extension cable (80cm) that allows to connect an RGB LED strip or the CPU cooler (Wraith Spire in my case).

The motherboard comes with three PCI-Express slots, two being protected by a steel armor to prevent bending caused by heavy graphics cards! It looks like a new trend among motherboard makers, because GIGABYTE does the same thing on its GA-X370 Gaming 5 for example.

Two connectors for M.2 unit drives are available. A shield is provided for the first M.2 connector to improve heat dissipation:

Only MSI products are equipped with VR Boost. When using a VR headset, you want to have a smooth experience. Traditional USB ports can suffer signal drops, significantly impacting performance of connected devices. VR Boost is a smart chip that ensures a clean and strong signal to a VR optimized USB port, giving you an enjoyable VR experience.

The Gaming APP can also drive the CPU cooler (AMD Wraith Spire) and the graphics card:

6 – Quick Benchmark

Here is a quick benchmark with 3DMark. The goal is to see the difference in the CPU score between the Ryzen 7 testbed and the previous one, based on a Core i5. Just to be sure that the big Ryzen 7 offers better performances than the little Core i5 😉 The graphics card is a Radeon RX 470 (with Crimson 17.4.3).

I think the CPU score is clear: between +60% and +80% for the Ryzen 7 CPU. Not bad!

My previous experience with an AMD processor (FX 6100) was rather bad: the FX 6100 (6-core processor) was slow and I quickly updated the testbed with an Intel CPU. With Ryzen CPUs, it’s another story. This time, AMD’s CPUs are a real alternative to Intel’s ones and this is very cool.